![]() The Pacifica Radio Archives currently holds 39 episodes from between Decemand August 13, 1970. Each episode began with a recording of Buffy Sainte-Marie singing "Now that the Buffalo's Gone." The series of news reports on the Indians of All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco was recorded and broadcast live from 22 Dec. Beginning in the mid-1970s Alcatraz became a major tourist attraction as documentaries about. With borrowed and donated radio equipment, the programs originated from the main cell block building on Alcatraz, and were carried live by the Pacifica Network, which consisted, at the time, of KPFA, Berkeley KPFK, Los Angeles and WBAI, New York weekday evenings at 7:15 p.m. A final feature that made the Alcatraz convicts unusual. On December 22, 1969, KPFA began its first live broadcast from Alcatraz, under the direction of John Trudell, a Santee Sioux from Nebraska who was relocated to the Bay Area with his wife and two children. This documentary examines the personal sacrifices. ![]() Radio Free Alcatraz was conceived to give a voice to the voiceless minority of Native Americans. Gather Gather is a harrowing, yet passionately inspiring documentary from 2020 that gives the viewer an eye-opening account of how Indigenous people from various areas of the U.S. The story of the occupation of Alcatraz is as complex and rich as the history of Native Americans. government laws regarding American Indian land claims and their right to tribal self-rule. Not least of all, this inspirational and highly public political demonstration initiated major changes in U.S. It publicized the American Indian civil rights movement and fueled the American Indian Movement (AIM) to occupy 74 more federal facilities, culminating in the occupation of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation of the Oglala Sioux in South Dakota in 1973. government, but was successful in many ways. Directed by: Andrew Jones Escape From Alcatraz 1979 PG CC 4.7 (3,978) Prime Video From 299 to rent From 9.99 to buy Or 0. The Alcatraz occupation was forcibly ended by the U.S. This occupation was the first of its kind and inspired Native Americans to fight for their civil rights, as well as expose their issues to the North American public. The Alcatraz takeover was done to protest federal laws that contradicted historic land treaties with the Indians and aimed to destroy American Indian cultures, including the right of tribes to self-govern. From November 20, 1969, to June 11, 1971, a group called Indians of All Tribes occupied Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco, California.
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